GloVEd - Global Virtual Education

Business today is increasingly international. To decrease the costs and time consumption of travelling, new technologies and methods for virtual interaction and telepresence have been developed and taken into use. These tools along with the general development have altered the skill sets required of students graduating and moving to the world of commerce. To answer these challenges in education, a global virtual course is developed.

University of Lapland , Faculty of Education, Centre for Media Pedagogy (Rovaniemi , Finland ) will be assisting with the pedagogical aspect of the course together with Helsinki University of Technology (Espoo , Finland ), University of Columbia (New York , USA ) and Indian Institute of Technology in Madras (Chennai , India ). The course implementation will happen between Helsinki University of Technology, University of Columbia and Indian Institute of Technology in Madras . The GloVEd project is co-ordinated by Helsinki University of technology and funded by the Centennial Foundation of the Finnish Technology Industries. GloVed is also a part of the research activities of CICERO Learning Network, Finland, www.cicero.fi. The project is scheduled to run years 2008 and 2009.